Ohio's package rule for cannabis sold at the counter, Ohio Administrative Code 1301:18-4-06, took effect on October 5. An adult-use edible now carries at most 10 mg of THC per piece and 100 mg per package. A THC drink stops at 10 mg per container, twelve containers to a pack. Medical patients keep a 55 mg serving. Several trade outlets dated the change October 6; the rule itself says October 5.
For most people buying a gummy in Columbus this changes nothing, because a 10 mg piece was already the thing on the shelf and a ten-count 100 mg pack was already the unit it came in. The person who feels it is the one with a tolerance, who was buying bags of ten 50 mg gummies and now needs five pieces to land where one used to. Those five pieces are priced per piece. Ohio did this while leaving medical patients at 55 mg per serving, five and a half times the adult-use ceiling, and it is hard to read that gap as anything other than a standing invitation to go get a card.
What is Ohio's THC limit for edibles now?
Since October 5, an adult-use edible sold by an Ohio dispensary cannot exceed 10 mg of THC per portion or 100 mg per package. Medical edibles run to 55 mg per serving, with a package capped at ten servings, so 550 mg at the largest serving size. Daily purchase limits are a separate rule and did not move.
| Product | Adult-use | Medical |
|---|---|---|
| Edible, per serving | 10 mg THC | 55 mg THC |
| Edible, per package | 100 mg THC | Ten servings (550 mg at the top serving size) |
| Beverage | 10 mg per container, twelve containers per package | 55 mg per serving, 110 mg per container, 220 mg per package |
The rule, titled "Limitations on packages of cannabis intended for direct customer sale," reaches well past gummies. Flower packages stop at one ounce. A vape package holds up to three cartridges or devices of 2 g each, under a 90 percent THC ceiling that applies to everything sold at the counter. Oral drops get 30 mL and 1 g of THC per package, topicals 3 oz and 1 g. The edible numbers in the Division of Cannabis Control's September 2025 filing reached the final text unchanged. The beverage count did not.
Was 10 mg per piece new? As a binding number for adult-use sales, yes. The 10 mg and 100 mg figures first appeared in the version of Senate Bill 56 the Ohio Senate passed in February 2025, but the bill Governor DeWine signed in December sets potency ceilings for flower and extracts (35 and 70 percent) and leaves edible content limits to the Division, per Ohio State's Drug Enforcement and Policy Center comparison of the enacted law. A Columbus dispensary told WSYX it was selling ten-count bags of 50 mg gummies until the rule took effect. A limit that lives in a bill draft and not on the shelf is a draft.
Do medical patients get a higher limit?
Yes. A medical edible in Ohio can carry 55 mg of THC per serving and ten servings per package, and a medical beverage can carry 55 mg per serving, 110 mg per container and 220 mg per package. The Marijuana Herald's read of the filing is that the medical tier carries the medical program's existing serving sizes forward, while the adult-use tier is the new construction.
Here is the arithmetic the state has set up. On the Leafly menu for Nar Cannabis in Columbus, pulled October 10, ten-count 100 mg packs from Smokiez and incredibles list at $20 before tax, which is $2 per 10 mg piece. Replacing one of the old 500 mg bags takes five of those packs, $100 of gummies in five child-resistant pouches, to do what one pouch did on October 4. A cardholder buys one 55 mg piece. The Division's filing does not mention medical cards, and it did not need to. A five-and-a-half-to-one potency gap is the clearest argument for holding a medical card that the state has yet put in writing.
Ohio Cannabis Company, the Columbus store that talked to WSYX, sold through most of its inventory before the deadline and still destroyed a handful of products worth a few hundred dollars. Its co-owner and general manager, Zachary Bradford, told the station the store is now limited to 100 mg a bag and a 10 mg serving, where it used to sell ten-gummy bags at 50 mg a piece, and said he would be surprised if one in ten budtenders in Ohio were able to state the current rules accurately. Given that the state has rewritten them twice since March, that is a fair guess.
What changed for THC drinks?
An adult-use cannabis beverage is capped at 10 mg of THC per container, and a package holds at most twelve containers, so 120 mg per pack. Medical beverages get a separate tier: 55 mg per serving, 110 mg per container and 220 mg per package. The 10 mg can was already the norm on Ohio shelves; the twelve-pack ceiling is the new part.
The twelve-count is also the number the Division changed between filing and adoption. The September 2025 filing allowed six containers per package. A group of Level II cultivators and processors told the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review in May 2026 that the statute lets the Division set limits "per serving or per package" and says nothing about containers, and asked the committee to send the rule back for refiling. The rule was filed in final form on August 25 with the container language intact and the beverage pack doubled to twelve. Read that as the Division conceding the case of beer and nothing else.
The rule does not say what happens to 50 mg bags already in stock. The text has no sell-through clause and no inventory cutoff, and we found no Division notice on old stock. One outlet reported a cutoff for product received on or before October 4 without saying where it came from, so treat that as a claim rather than a rule. What is on the record is a Columbus store that sold down ahead of the date and destroyed the rest.
The same state is in the Sixth Circuit on October 22 defending its right to keep a 5 mg hemp seltzer out of a gas station, so Ohio is arguing that the only safe THC is the THC its licensees sell in the same month it tells those licensees to sell less of it per bag. The consistent thread is the counter. Every milligram in Ohio now runs through a Division of Cannabis Control license, in a 10 mg piece if you walk in with an ID and a 55 mg piece if you walk in with a card, and after December 11 the federal hemp definition stops arguing with that arrangement. For where to start when the biggest piece on the shelf is 10 mg, the dosing guide has not changed, and neither has the molecule.